Live Auction 5377Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BEAKER AND A SAUCER AND A BEAKER SIMILAR
Lot 620

A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BEAKER AND A SAUCER AND A BEAKER SIMILAR

CIRCA 1730, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO EACH, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER N=333_/W TO CUP AND BEAKER WITH POMEGRANATES, N=334/W TO BEAKER, DREHER'S QUARTERED CIRCLE AND MARKS

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 3,500

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BEAKER AND A SAUCER AND A BEAKER SIMILAR
CIRCA 1730, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO EACH, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER N=333_/W TO CUP AND BEAKER WITH POMEGRANATES, N=334/W TO BEAKER, DREHER'S QUARTERED CIRCLE AND MARKS
The tapering cylindrical beaker and a saucer painted and gilt with a vignette of two pomegranates issuing from a leafy branch and further Oriental flowersprays, within brown line rims and a similar beaker painted with scattered flowerheads (small chip to saucer, minute wear to enamels) (3)

Specialist note

For two similar beakers in each pattern see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, p. 67, nos. 251 and 252. The 1779 Japanese Palace Inventory notes 'Fifty-four various chocolate beakers on their own painted with various flowers, 2¾ inches in height, 3¼ in. in diametre no. 334', see Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, the Wark Collection, London, 2011, p. 271, nos. 268-269 for two similar beakers decorated with scattered flowerheads.